6.1% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woonona · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woonona
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 90% of people in Woonona speak only English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. While more people here use another language than in most similar areas, the overall variety of languages spoken remains quite low.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the breakdown, with Italian and Arabic as the most common non-English languages, while only 0.7% of people speak little or no English.
0.7% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Woonona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14434/woonona/topic/language